Shaftesbury

19°COvercast

• Today: 21° / 11° · 19% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:32

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Bournemouth, United Kingdom

88 reported · July 2026▲ 5% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour38
• Violence & sexual offences20
• Vehicle crime7
• Other theft5

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Gillingham and Shaftesbury · Dorset

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

686 reported road collisions (2024)

156 killed or seriously injured · 883 casualties · 18.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

83 food businesses within 2 miles

• 81 rated 4–5 ★ (76 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Gillingham (6.3 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£325,410 average▲ 1.6% YoY

Across Dorset · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,051 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £728
• 2 bed £961
• 3 bed £1,184

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

9.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.9 times median annual pay (9.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · Esso (6.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Asda (0.4 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

7 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Superstore-Shaftesbury (0 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches21
• Playgrounds11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

379,579 residents in Dorset · 152/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 55%
• 65+: 30%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 197 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,765 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 187,680)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

184 schools · 51,332 pupils

119 primary · 18 secondary · 47 other

Ofsted: 68 of 86 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

158inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Dorset

385 CQC-registered services

• Care homes121
• GP practices59
• Dentists84
• Homecare agencies86
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 96% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Dorset

• Not in the Green Belt
• 279 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

662 applications decided

92.4% granted · 612 granted, 50 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Simon Hoare

Conservative

North Dorset

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

• Lab 2
• Con 30
• LD 42
• Grn 4
• Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens9
• Restaurants & cafés13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

20,515 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

257 jobs advertised · £45,162 avg

e.g. Senior Staff Nurse - Theatre, Deliver with Uber Eats - Sign Up and Start Earning, Looking For Part-Time Opportunities? - Deliver with Uber Eats

Source: Adzuna

£737 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,403 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 186,790 certificates

9.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

74% low-carbon electricity

Wind 35% · Solar 31% · Imports 19% · Gas 7%

41 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.6 women · 65.3 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North Dorset:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership353 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership341 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office306 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s286 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases260 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Shaftesbury F.C. · 0.2 km

  Shaftesbury Football Club are a football club based in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. The club is affiliated to the Dorset County Football Association and is a FA chartered Standard club. They are currently members of…

• The Breeze (North Dorset) · 0.3 km

  The Breeze (North Dorset) was an Independent Local Radio station serving North Dorset from 1995 to 2020.

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  Shaftesbury · 0.3 km

  Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hillt…

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  Shaftesbury Town Hall · 0.4 km

  Shaftesbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Shaftsbury Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

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  North Dorset (constituency) · 0.4 km

  North Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Simon Hoare of the Conservative Party.

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  Gold Hill, Shaftesbury · 0.4 km

  Gold Hill is a steep cobbled street in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset. The view looking down from the top of the street has been described as "one of the most romantic sights in England."

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)